Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:44:49 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usbd does not use detach Message-ID: <200308151644.49459.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030814.224323.03703254.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <1060504397.777.15.camel@syrenna.deep-ocean.local> <200308150901.35745.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20030814.224323.03703254.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Friday 15 August 2003 14:13, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <200308150901.35745.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> > > "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes: > : It should also have a hint to indicate that this device could potentially > : go away at any time, so it shouldn't cache anything if at all possible. > : (Although it would be good if the user could elect to override this in > : the interests of performance) > : > : I suspect that would require more significant changes though :) > > I suspect that this would be as hard to implement as dealing with > things going away, and produce a system that is less desirable to > use. I think ideally both would be possible.. It IS nice when you plug something in and it is mounted, and you do what you want with it, then a few seconds after you finish you unplug it. I LIKE this feature of Windows etc :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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